Data Center Networking Demystified

	Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product | Cisco claims 7,400 UCS customers as of August
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	Data Center Networking Demystified As part of my job as an analyst, I talk to a lot of IT, networking, and security professionals. Based upon these conversations, I have no doubt that data center networking is going through a profound transition. Why? Simply stated, the old model of static inflexible physical networks can't keep up with new requirements like rapid provisioning, server virtualization mobility, low-latency, and massive... Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! In this Issue Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product Cisco claims 7,400 UCS customers as of August Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios Stanford's Open Networking Summit to highlight OpenFlow, SDN What do top CIOs make? WEBCAST: Cymphonix Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today! Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product Silver Peak today announced free downloadable software that performs the same data acceleration functions as its enterprise-class product, but only for data replication between two sites and not multiple applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! Cisco claims 7,400 UCS customers as of August Cisco's Unified Computing System blade servers have been one of the company's surprise hits. As of August, Cisco claimed 7,400 total UCS customers, 2,000 of which were added last quarter, the company said. This represents an increase of 240%, or $124 million, compared to the year ago quarter, mostly due to adding new customers, Cisco says. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Making a Pain-free Migration to Unified Communications Improving collaboration is one of a handful of changes businesses need to quickly recover and flourish after a recession. See how adopting unified communications (UC) can provide key collaboration benefits, including increased productivity, faster response and improved customer service. Read now! Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. Read More Stanford's Open Networking Summit to highlight OpenFlow, SDN Stanford University this October will host the first Open Networking Summit, which will focus on the history, state and future of OpenFlow and software-defined networking technologies. Read More What do top CIOs make? CIOs and CTOs at major companies including GM, Boeing, Home Depot and FedEx took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2010. See what each of these senior IT leaders' pay packages is worth, once the salaries, bonuses, stock options and perks are tallied. Read More
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